Demonstrations and strikes all over Italy as the vaccine mandate/pass was to go into effect today

I missed this November article on flu shots from the NY Times blog.  Yes, it repeats material I have covered before.  But as healthcare workers continue to be fired from their jobs for refusing flu shots, I will continue to post on why their firings make no sense. Here are excerpts: It’s flu-shot season, and…

David Willman does another deft job with the story of BioWatch, hopefully in time to influence the upcoming purchase of BioWatch’s next generation of detectors.  None have yet worked as billed.  The “detectors” are simply air samplers:  filters attached to vacuum tubes.  The filters have to be collected, then tested elsewhere using PCR devices specific…

 https://www.nature.com/articles/ja201711.pdf Someone wrote this in 2017.  Some people thus knew ivermectin had antiviral properties.  In fact, the drug has all kinds of possibly miraculous effects.  It is just missing the important one:  patentability.  (It was patented but the patent expired in 1997.)  Recent research has confounded the belief, held for most of the past 40…

 by Vinay Prasad, MD https://brownstone.org/articles/its-madness-what-is-happening-to-college-kids/ …When it comes to COVID19, there are only 3 things any of us can do: We can lower the risk of bad outcomes when we encounter the virus.  We can delay the time to meet the virus We can engage in theater which does not delay the time to meet…

Medicine has become so replete with financial conflicts of interest, it becomes very hard to sort out what the ethical standards are these days. Yesterday, the NY Times told us that the AMA put out a warning to doctors that doctors’ primary responsibility is to the patient and not to their employer.  In other words,…